China Business & Economy

With the commencement of meetings of the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, premier Li Keqiang gave an annual “work report” on March 5, highlighting China’s economic...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Commerce Department said on Feb. 27 it had made a final determination that imports of aluminum foil from China are being sold in the United States at less than their fair value and Chinese...

China is desperate to repair its relationship with the United States.Within a month, Beijing has sent two high-level officials on diplomatic visits to the U.S. to talk trade and make amends.On Feb. 8, State...

WASHINGTON—President Trump pointedly blamed the World Trade Organization (WTO) for enabling China’s rise at the expense of the United States, in remarks to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference)...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury’s top diplomat ramped up his criticisms of China’s economic policies on Wednesday, accusing Beijing of “patently non-market behavior” and saying that the United States...

Rumors of China’s former security czar Luo Gan using his political clout to benefit his family have long been circulating on the Chinese internet. But with the publication of a recent exposé on the shady...

Communist authorities in Inner Mongolia recently admitted that they had exaggerated industrial revenue by 26 percent, or 53 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), according to state media on Jan. 3. The numbers...

President Donald Trump’s Asia trip highlighted the difficulty in reducing barriers to entry for American companies to key Chinese sectors. American innovation in the electronic payment services sector,...

At the heart of the modern economy is the semiconductor, and the United States is the world leader in producing the tiny microchips. Now China is seeking by fair means and foul to challenge America’s...

This is version 2.0 of the Panama Papers. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has published findings from another batch of leaked documents, called the Paradise Papers, showing...

Following recent new appointments and anticipated shakeups in China’s security apparatus, the commanding officer of the People’s Armed Police, Wang Ning, announced on Oct. 31 that the paramilitary...

Since Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping appointed a new official to head the Party’s internal anti-graft watchdog organization, there has been a lot of media speculation about what direction...

Perhaps it doesn’t come as a shock when an international survey shows that the “Made in China” label does not generate the highest consumer confidence. However, when the product tag from the Middle...

When news broke that McDonald’s in China will be called something else, tens of thousands of Chinese internet users went on overdrive, their creativity going wild.On Oct. 26, McDonald’s China announced...

China is one of the world’s biggest markets, but don’t expect business as usual when it comes to how companies operate inside the country. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) permeates every aspect of society...

Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, has announced that it will hire 1,000 users to work as online censors. The censors will be rewarded monetarily for reporting “harmful” contents posted by other...

Since the current regime leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has launched many a prestige project, like the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB). Ostensibly they are for economic...

In China, breakfast at the local food stall can be paid for with a smartphone: scan the nearby QR code, and the money gets automatically deducted from the account linked to the device.Chinese consumers...

North Korean soldiers patrol next to the border fence near the town of Sinuiju across from the Chinese border town of Dandong on Feb. 10, 2016. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)BEIJING/HONG KONG — China‘s...

WASHINGTON—China’s manipulative trade practices and economic model represent an “unprecedented threat” to the world’s market-based economy and U.S. interests, said U.S. Trade Representative Robert...